DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

15 July 1999



Press Briefing

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19990715

The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General:

**Kosovo

Good afternoon. The Secretary-General's Special Representative for Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner, arrived in Pristina today.

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19 July 1999



Press Briefing

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19990719

The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General:

Good afternoon. Our guest today will be Liviu Bota, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Georgia.

**Secretary-General Opens UNISPACE III

PRESS BRIEFING ON SITUATION IN GEORGIA

19 July 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING ON SITUATION IN GEORGIA

19990719

The security situation in the Georgia conflict zone had been improving since the beginning of the year and there had been no major violations of the 1994 ceasefire and separation of forces agreement, Liviu Bota, Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Georgia, said at a Headquarters press briefing this morning.

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

21 July 1999



Press Briefing

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL

19990721

The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General:

Good afternoon. Our guest at today's noon briefing will be John Ruggie, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General. He will be discussing Kosovo with you.

**East Timor

PRESS BRIEFING ON UN OPERATIONS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

23 July 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING ON UN OPERATIONS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

19990723

The biggest lesson of Bosnia and Herzegovina to be applied in Kosovo was the recognition that there should be one international leadership giving more responsibility to local political leaders in solving problems, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Coordinator of the United Nations Operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Elizabeth Rehn, said this afternoon.